A Perspective on D from game industry

Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jun 15 21:30:06 PDT 2014


On 6/15/2014 7:08 PM, w0rp wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 22:40:53 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> *i.e. it's not targeted at women specifically and doesn't imply any
>> negative message about women. YMMV by location and social group.
>>
>> **it's barely an insult at all if you've got the right(?) Irish friends.
>
> It's totally not misogynistic, but it's also not appropriate. If for
> nothing else, it's just not creative use of the English language. It's
> certainly better to criticise an opinion by pointing out its flaws than
> to just curse someone.

Yes. Until the equivalent "male" words start getting labeled as 
misandrist (which I hope never happens), then accusing the "female" 
version as being sexist is *itself* an extremely flagrant display of 
misogyny, vastly more misogynistic than the word itself could ever be.



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